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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2016-09-10 04:22:25 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2016-09-10 04:22:25 (GMT)
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#20476: Deal with the message_factory circular import differently.
It turns out we can't depend on email.message getting imported every place message_factory is needed, so to avoid a circular import we need to special case Policy.message_factory=None in the parser instead of using monkey patching. I had a feeling that was a bad idea when I did it.
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@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ added matters. To illustrate::
.. attribute:: message_factory
A factory function for constructing a new empty message object. Used
- by the parser when building messages. Defaults to
- :class:`~email.message.Message`.
+ by the parser when building messages. Defaults to ``None``, in
+ which case :class:`~email.message.Message` is used.
.. versionadded:: 3.6